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physics.soc-ph2014533 cited

Cyclic dominance in evolutionary games: A review

Attila Szolnoki, Mauro Mobilia, Luo-Luo Jiang +3

Rock is wrapped by paper, paper is cut by scissors, and scissors are crushed by rock. This simple game is popular among children and adults to decide on trivial disputes that have…

physics.soc-ph2014449 cited

The Matthew effect in empirical data

Matjaz Perc

The Matthew effect describes the phenomenon that in societies the rich tend to get richer and the potent even more powerful. It is closely related to the concept of preferential at…

physics.soc-ph2014286 cited

Probabilistic sharing solves the problem of costly punishment

Xiaojie Chen, Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Cooperators that refuse to participate in sanctioning defectors create the second-order free-rider problem. Such cooperators will not be punished because they contribute to the pub…

physics.soc-ph2013176 cited

Effectiveness of conditional punishment for the evolution of public cooperation

Attila Szolnoki, Matjaz Perc

Collective actions, from city marathons to labor strikes, are often mass-driven and subject to the snowball effect. Motivated by this, we study evolutionary advantages of condition…

physics.soc-ph2012191 cited

Languages cool as they expand: Allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words

Alexander M. Petersen, Joel N. Tenenbaum, Shlomo Havlin +2

We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages…

physics.soc-ph2012108 cited

Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries

Matjaz Perc

By determining which were the most common English words and phrases since the beginning of the 16th century, we obtain a unique large-scale view of the evolution of written text. W…